i dont see u guys rating the kind of mate im contemplatinghttps://twitter.com/mattparlmer/status/1306253448963334152 …
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Replying to @eigenrobot
You know what’s weird about chess? The game is won when someone says “Checkmate,” which comes from the Persian phrase “shāh māt.” Roughly translated, this means “The King is dead.” But you never actually capture the King. He never really dies. The game's over when he can’t move.
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Replying to @WhippleMarc
well its implicit you know there are kids watching
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it occurred to me at a pretty young age that this is actually High Feudalism - it would be insanely disrespectful to actually KILL a king ; you just reveal that you could and that's good enough also, been reading a ton about chess variants and ancestors and most do kill him
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